CoStar Realty Information, Inc. v. Meissner

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the term “may be found” in Section 1400(a) means any district which may assert personal jurisdiction over a defendant
• holding that forum selection clause overrode all other considerations
• “Mere alle gations of serious inconvenience are insufficient to meet the ‘heavy burden’ of showing why enforcement would be unreasonable.”
• “A forum selection clause can be a consent to personal jurisdiction, or at least a waiver of any objection, when invoked by the plaintiff.”
• “The decision whether to transfer venue is committed to the sound discretion of the trial court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).